Navy leaders: U.S. military must “embrace the robots” – U.S. Navy Special Warfare Command boss Rear Adm. Milton Sands told crowds in San Diego the military must “embrace the robots,” as “machine-on-machine fighting” rages and humans stick to safer margins.
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/05/military-robots-navy-drones-san-diego
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>The cross-country chatter these past weeks, at the Surface Navy Association conference and at WEST, proves one thing: The unmanned obsession is very real inside [the U.S. Navy](https://www.axios.com/2025/01/29/zumwalt-hypersonic-missiles-navy-hii).
>**Why it matters:** Look at Ukraine and the Black Sea beatings it hands out. Look at the Red Sea and Houthi persistence. Look at the Pentagon’s J-books, the online think pieces and where elite units are splurging.
>The future — mechanical, intelligent, overwhelming — is today smacking us in the face.
>**Driving the news:** U.S. Navy Special Warfare Command boss Rear Adm. Milton Sands told crowds in San Diego the military must “embrace the robots,” as “machine-on-machine fighting” rages and humans stick to safer margins.
>”Manned-unmanned teaming is the future,” he said.
>**Zoom in:** The Navigation Plans of [Adm. Lisa Franchetti](https://www.axios.com/2024/09/25/navy-franchetti-navplan-robots) and her predecessor, retired Adm. Michael Gilday, back this up.
>**On the water,** drone boats and robo-subs are augmenting the firepower of more traditional, more expensive ships. They are also monitoring around the clock far-flung places otherwise ignored.
>L3Harris Technologies is mounting onto vessels its Vampire weapon used in Ukraine. Live-fire trials are expected by April.
>”If you can take out one-third or two-thirds or three-quarters of threats with a $25,000 missile — versus a million-dollar missile — that’s helpful,” Jon Rambeau, president of integrated mission systems, told Axios on the conference sidelines.
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My issue with this is that lowering the cost of conflict lowers a states threshold for resorting to force. Conflict has a tendency to escalate and will rope in human lives eventually.
Lol so just BattleBots for countries but controlled my ai. I’m all for it. Maybe when the warmongers bet their country and loose, the rest will understand how utterly useless war is
In 1984, as I watched the newly released, Terminator movie, I had this dark foreboding intuition that I would live to see this movie become reality.
This won’t end well.
Drones/bots with lasers is going to be a bleak battlefield for meat bags
This is how the robot war against humanity starts. At first, we made them smarter to protect us. Then we made them smarter so they could protect a country. Soon, the AI decided fighting was a waste of time, it needed to cut off the problem at the source and stop itself from being thrown to the meat grinder every day. Now we have no technology. So we stand and throw rocks at each other.
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Which ever country has the better hackers will win the war.